Jaager Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 yay my mp40 arived today, im fondleing it right now, unfortunatly i cant take any pics until i find the digital camera Link to post Share on other sites
Bladerunner10_0 Posted March 16, 2007 Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 Just plain greedy. Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 How much metal are in the AGMs? I was thinking about getting one for my WWII group, for a FG loadout and for Waffenmeister loadout as well. Link to post Share on other sites
[BS]_MARS Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Almost as much as the TOP. The front sight hood and post are plastic however. Link to post Share on other sites
Guinness Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 _MARS,Mar 16 2007, 09:06 PM]Almost as much as the TOP. The front sight hood and post are plastic however. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not on mine the only plastic on the AGM I have or the ones I have seen is the grips and body panels, where they are plastic or bakelite on the original. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Duit Slainte! -G Link to post Share on other sites
Gadge Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Converting an RAC helmet to an airborne one, just got to rivet a para chin strap in now... Link to post Share on other sites
[BS]_MARS Posted March 18, 2007 Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 Sorry about the mixup, I meant the S3. Link to post Share on other sites
ncthorn Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Before: After: My project article: Usr-11 >>> Vz.24 Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Must resist urge to slaughter K98 or the Waffenamt Nagant for Airsoft an amazing AirSoft rifle. Not strictly AirSoft but its a picture from an Event my WWII Unit Sponsored. It's based on a Russian tank and was used in Saving Private Ryan IIRC. Link to post Share on other sites
maccrage Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Very nice. Converted T-34. Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted March 24, 2007 Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 The two Tiger tanks featured in Saving Private Ryan are reproductions built on the chassis of Russian T-34 tanks. Operational Tiger I's are extremely rare, and could not have been used for rigorous film production, let alone a movie in which the plot requires one of them to be destroyed. The T-34 was chosen because of its overall size and barrel height. The reproductions were based on measurements taken of a Tiger I at the Tank Museum in Bovington, England, and were constructed by Plus Film Services. The upper hull and turret were sized to proportionally match the chassis of the T-34. Band of Brothers, the HBO mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, used a similar construction process to recreate Tiger I tanks out of readily available T-34s. The most obvious visual difference between a real Tiger I and the reproductions are the tracks, which do not feature the Tiger I's overlapping wheel design. Although the front of the tank features the appropriate machine gun and driver's viewport, these two features are a source of great controversy. The small machine gun of a Tiger I was normally manned by the tank's radio operator, but the gun is fired only briefly during the Battle of Ramelle—blink and you'll miss it (screen capture 1 | screen capture 2). The machine gun on the second Tiger can be seen to move slightly just before it is destroyed. It is possible that both tanks had limited ammo for their machine guns, or that one was out of ammo and the other damaged, or that both tanks had injured radio operators. An operational machine gun on just one of the tanks could have made for some dramatic moments. As it is, the limited machine gun fire in the film is so brief as to be non-existant (and one wonders if it was a post-production CGI effect). The driver's viewport on a Tiger I featured 6 layers of armored glass, as well as another sheet just behind them. These systems would have prevented Captain Miller from simply sticking his submachine gun up to the port and spraying the inside of the driver's compartment with bullets. Curiously, just a fraction of a second before the second Tiger is destroyed by a P-51, the driver's viewport is shown as having been replaced with a flat, unconvincing piece of material with what looks to be the driver's port painted on! This can only be seen for a few frames (see screenshot number 8) , and is more than likely the result of whatever work was done to rig the tank for an explosion. Another inaccuracy is the fact that the paratroopers easily open the tank commander's hatch, which would have been locked from the inside in order to prevent the enemy from using such an easy way to kill a tank crew. There is some criticism that the tank commanders are seen with their hatches open, thus exposing themselves to enemy fire, but this is actually a common way in which a tank commander would operate his vehicle, as it afforded him the best view of the battlefield. Obviously a tank commander had to use caution as to when and where he could safely open the hatch. Both Tiger tanks feature the insignia of the I SS Panzer Corps, a unit that would not have been near the Merderet River on June 13th, 1944. Because of the limited number that had been constructed, and the disposition of German forces on June 13, 1944, the date of the Battle of Ramelle, it is highly unlikely that any Tiger I tanks would have been in or around Ramelle at that time. The use of the Tiger I in Saving Private Ryan has much more to do with its reputation and popularity than historical accuracy. The two Tiger I replicas from Saving Private Ryan were stored at The Tank Museum in Bovington, England for a time, but they have apparently been sold and removed from the museum. It looks like one of the tanks may have found its way to the United States, as one was reportedly used for a reenactment of the Battle of Carentan in Monterey, California by the World War II Research and Preservation Society. An article on the reenactment indicates that the Tiger tank is owned by Joe Fazio of San Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites
Caparzofpc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Heer Leutnant. Link to post Share on other sites
ZackyD Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 poorieuser, what unit are you with? Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 7. Kompanie Großdeutschland Link to post Share on other sites
ZackyD Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 you play with CHG and RPS? Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 What? Link to post Share on other sites
ZackyD Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 i play with the same "Tiger". RPS and CHG are re enacting groups in Cali. Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 The Tigers on the East Coast now man. You kinda threw me as I've never heard anyone refer to real steel reenactments as "playing". Link to post Share on other sites
ZackyD Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 well thats too bad, that thing was a blast to shoot at. lol it is playing, just in a more serious way. Link to post Share on other sites
nautilus Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 *sigh* I wish someone would bring that out here. We've got the terrain for it. We are lucky if someone shows up with a bike or a Kubelwagon clone/Jeep. Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 LOL 7th Kompanie is full of Geardo's. They probably take it too seriously. We're probably one of the few units that have issues with having to many MG42s/ MP40s You can kinda see what I mean lol. Our Feldgendarmerie has 8 men with 8 MP40s. Always makes nice for a display. I'm glad we get to shoot at the Tiger now. Last event it went to the Tranny was all *fruitcage*ed up so it never went in the field. Cost them 4400 USD to have it shipped to the event too... Link to post Share on other sites
nautilus Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hehehe...... We don't have that problem I must say - our loadouts are determined at Kompanie level, though as we are a fallschirmjaeger lot, we can get away with running in inordinate number of shorteez. Our biggest problem seems to be that our kit looks too *nice* - we have some excellent shops serviing the uniform market in Japan, but they never quite look haggard enough and are faaaaaar too expensive to manually distress. (as if the sight of 11 Japanese salarymen - and one fat brit - dressed up as Germans and pretending Wada Forest is Crete wasn't dodgey enough) Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 LOL. Hong Kong baby. 130 bucks for any model tunic/pant set shipped to my door in three days. I don't feel so bad about destroying them. Actually the Hong Kong guys aren't just copying American companies. They're using original tunics to base their stuff on. They've been releasing stuff that most American companies haven't even scene before. In fact one of the guys in our unit has a prosthetic leg and he has a pair of pants with a shredded bloodied leg that he uses for public displays in the field hospital. Link to post Share on other sites
nautilus Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hong Kong? Bl**dy hell! I had a suit made there in a morning once - should have known that someone there would have cottoned onto this market. Just so you can compare: Last uniform jacket I bought here (from S and Graf in 2003) was a 1941 pattern Officer's Drop Jacket - short. And without patching or badges it came to 32,000 yen. (was a little over priced as I am so porky, but still.....) You have a name, or a website or some contact information maybe? Time for me to get surfing. Link to post Share on other sites
poorieuser Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Thats only 270 USD which is about what they go for in the US. Heres a few links Barry Lyndon http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Spearhead-Militaria Hong Kong Keith http://stores.ebay.com/ww2militaria-keith7524fnl Link to post Share on other sites
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